Weekend Construction Friday Night - Saturday Morning
The Embarcadero will be closed Friday, December 5th from 4pm to Saturday, December 6th at 10am so that a new overhead pedestrian bridge can be put into place. The pedestrian bridge will link the parking garage (known as "Site G) to the parking lot at Jack London Square.

This construction work - on the weekend and at night - HAS been approved, as it was the best time for traffic concerns, as well as shutting down train traffic on the Union Pacific tracks. This includes Amtrak traffic.

Here is the info from Matt Wickens, local resident and project manager for Ellis Partners:

We will be installing the long span of the new pedestrian bridge between the new Garage and Market buildings in the early morning hours of Saturday December 6th. The bridge will span across the railroad tracks and Embarcadero Avenue , and is in line with Harrison Street . Unfortunately, we are constrained to a short over-night work window by both Amtrak and Union Pacific train schedules, hence the need to work outside of normal hours. We anticipate that Embarcadero will be closed from 4pm on 12/5 to 10am on 12/6 to allow for set-up and dismantle of the large crane needed to place the bridge. All required street closure and building permits have been obtained from the City of Oakland . Union Pacific Railroad has approved the installation and completed design. We are in the process of alerting Oakland PD Traffic Division.

Actual bridge installation will begin just after 12:00 am on Saturday, and should not take more than a few hours if all goes as planned. The work area will need site lighting for obvious reasons, but we do not anticipate any extremely loud noise from the site.

We apologize in advance for any disruption this causes, but we do not anticipate any major impact to the neighborhood.

I can be reached at 415-264-4903 with any questions or concerns. Please feel free to forward this on to any appropriate parties in the neighborhood.


Matt

Matt Wickens
Ellis Partners LLC
111 Sutter St. Ste. 800, SF , CA 94104
O: 415-391-9800
C: 415-264-4903


Won't it be great to have a night without train noise???!!!!
Posted 12/03/2008